Adriel Booker's Blog

A personal note* about leaving Sydney (Gadigal Land)

The honest truth is that the last six or seven years of our lives have been some of the hardest we ever experienced. We’ve been living with rental insecurity, financial pressures (oh, hi, pandemic), and physical and mental health needs that sometimes felt beyond our means for addressing properly. At times we’ve been on the receiving end of broken promises or unfair situations that were not within our control. More often than not we lacked privacy and space. We’ve been faced with scenarios where...

An invitation from Adriel—Join a small grief support group

Our next Deep Dive starts a few weeks from now. If you’ve been considering joining a group—now’s your time! Please be aware that this may be my last Deep Dive for a while (several months?) as I pair down as much as I possibly can while book-writing.

This group is for you if you want to work through the content of Grace Like Scarlett and process your grief with intention with the support of Adriel and a small group of women from within Our Scarlett Stories community. With the exception of two li...

A personal invitation from Adriel—Join a small grief support group

Our next Deep Dive starts a few weeks from now. If you’ve been considering joining a group—now’s your time! Please be aware that this may be my last Deep Dive for a while (several months?) as I pair down as much as I possibly can while book-writing.

This group is for you if you want to work through the content of Grace Like Scarlett and process your grief with intention with the support of Adriel and a small group of women from within Our Scarlett Stories community. With the exception of two li...

Dear rookie or not-so-rookie writer: Here’s what I want to say about Imposter Syndrome

Lunching at a monastery in Tuscany. As you do.

 

Seven years ago I was invited to a dream trip for writers in Italy. It had only been six months since I made the leap to fight imposter syndrome and changed my instagram bio to include the word “writer.” I still knew very little about the industry.

I didn’t know the facilitator of the trip was a literary agent at the top of her game. (I had to ask what a “literary agent” even was when I first met her a month before at my first writers’ conference....

A straight up, unapologetic sales pitch for Tethered (because it’s that good)

Tethered: Exploring grief & loss, faith & doubt, wholeness & hope. $25. 40+ sessions. On demand. No expiration.

(Like a mullet, but for your clothes. Follow me for more free work from hope fashion tips. )

Here’s the thing: I don’t understand those magical creatures that enjoy selling stuff. And ...

Deconstruction and the lie of scarcity surrounding faith and doubt

I’m 17, huddled around a bonfire with friends. One argues for evolution; I argue for creation. Another argues creation; I argue evolution. The whole world appears binary. I don’t identify as a Christian. My faith is in myself & little else.

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I enjoy debate—always have. Working out ideas, concepts, language. It floors me to take big ideas, turn them inside out to examine them. My coming of age was accompanied by the realization that I’m a Thomas—skilled at doubting, naturally skeptical.

I’m a dou...

Mother’s Day for those who have lost or are longing

For mothers who have lost a child—born or unborn;

For mamas holding a sick child, daring to wonder how much time you have left;

For women who have yearned for a child and have been unable to conceive;

For women who long to be married and start a family yet remain waiting;

For those who want to adopt but haven’t yet seen that dream become reality;

For those who needed to let someone else care for their child and had to say goodbye;

For single moms of young kids who are too young to know how to e...

In Between Who I Was and Who I’m Becoming

It’s been a good long while since I’ve introduced myself here on my website, so I wanted to take some time to share parts of my story that you may not yet know. Thanks for visiting. I hope you find this a welcoming space.

 

In Between Who I Was and Who I’m Becoming

There was a time in my life when I wore power suits to work and then drove home in my 1963 Dynamic 88 Holiday to change into oversized jeans, thrifted cardigans, and low top Chucks to swig beers in the local pub with deadbeat skater ...

Dear Grieving Mom Project – Mother’s Day 2021

Join us this Mother’s Day to send and receive some hand-written love through the mail. Mother’s Day is hard when you’ve lost a baby due to miscarriage, stillbirth, medical termination, or other forms of pregnancy loss. It’s also difficult when you’re struggling with infertility or secondary infertility. This Mother’s Day, the Our Scarlett Stories community is doing a very simple card drive—bereaved moms sending other bereaved moms a hand written card through the mail.

If you’d like to parti...

Now hiring for Our Scarlett Stories team

Join our ministry team!

Great news! We’re looking to expand Our Scarlett Stories team with a few new positions in order to strengthen our community and expand our ability to support bereaved mothers and their families. These are volunteer positions and will include regular zoom team meetings with Adriel Booker for connection, prayer, and ministry development, as well as a private mentoring call with Adriel each month.

Length of commitment: Six-week trial to make sure we both think it’s a good ...